Contents 1. Problems and Perspectives Questioning Trends in Graduate Education Defining "The Problem" 2.Sources of Institutional Power: Constructed Consciousness, Hegemony, and Reification Constructed Consciousness: Lessons from Experience Institutional Hegemony: Graduate Student Perception of Place and Power Reification: Institutions That Can Do No Wrong 3.Institutional Cultures and Power: The Minefield of Conflicting Identities The Influence of Culture on Behavior Culture as an Interpretive Lens Institutional Cultures and Student Experience 4.Culture and Oppression: The "Other" as Graduate Student Forms of Oppression Experience of the Other Realities 5.Power and the Dissertation: Faculty as Demigods Ritual and Gatekeeping Dilemmas and Demigods 6.Voices of the Oppressed 7.How Might Things Be Otherwise? Recent Thoughts on Reform Philosophical Concerns Parting Thoughts References Index.